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Electoral diaspora and strongholds of the NSDAP were the areas were the Nazi Party was particularly successful or less successful electorally. In Bavaria this was among the counties at the last Reichstag election of the Weimar Republic the town of Rothenburg an der Tauber, the county of Kreis Uffenheim, the county of Kreis Neustadt an der Aisch and the county of Kreis Dinkelsbühl. These were in the vast majority Lutheran. The stronghold in the land of Oldenburg was the county of Kreis Westerstede. The other strongholds were in Hesse, being the county of Kreis Lauterbach, the county of Kreis Alsfeld, the county of Kreis Schotten, the county of Kreis Ziegenhain and the county of Kreis Frankenberg. Most of their residents were members of the Lutheran-Reformed Church. These areas nowadays differ in their political structure, in some cases elevated figures for the Free Democratic Party are present. The Bavarian diaspora areas were the county of Kreis Landau an der Isar, the county of Kreis Grafenau and the county of Kreis Bogen. These were of Roman Catholic character and in Lower Bavaria. Nowadays these are strongholds of the CSU and the REP. In Westphalia the areas with low vote for the NSDAP were the county of Kreis Büren, the county of Kreis Olpe, the county of Kreis Coesfeld and the town of Bocholt. In Lower Saxony the lowest votes for the NSDAP were in the county of Kreis Vechta, the county of Kreis Aschendorf, the county of Kreis Meppen. These were overwhelmingly Catholic. Nowadays these areas have high results for the CDU, but not for the REP. Other high votes for the Nazi Party were in East Prussia, Pomerania, Göttingen and Salzgitter. The nowadays German part of Pomerania has high votes of the extreme right and relatively high votes for the CDU. Göttingen has high votes for the Greens, but not for the REP, which is vice versa in Salzgitter. At the 1933 Reichstag election the highest vote gained by the Nazi Party in a municipality was in the town of Viöl in Northern Frisia.